Fia's music

So the odd thing, is ever since I got my Facebook, I'll post whatever. But the 2 times that the post seems to have taken more space than I think I should allot in Facebook, I'll post it over here. It's almost resparked my blogging interest.

Tonights story is Fia's music. When she sleeps, we put on some music to drown out the external noise of the cars and whatever. But what we let her listen to is the situation. We haven't found a great radio station that we can just turn on and forget. So we are cool with making our own mix for her. I have enough mellow stuff to fill up a while.

Her stereo takes a USB, so we just buy a 2gig jump drive and hit 'random' and let it play.It has 20+ hours of music. So repeating isn't really an issue. But a few weeks ago, something broke. Turns out it was the jump drive. So I went onto Amazon and bought another 2 gig jump drive for about $7 total. And after WAY TOO MANY problems getting it, I finally got it today and had to fill it up.

I have about 15 gig of music on my hard drive. But not all of it is "sleeping to" music. So I went through it all tonight to fill up her jump drive with only the mellow stuff.

Wow. I never remember all the things I like from my music selection until I go through it piece by piece. In my last post, I mentioned a funny quote from a fwd I got. Same email gives me another quote that is applicable here. "I love every song in my iTunes. Until I put it on shuffle, then I love about 1 out of every 15 songs." And that's what happened tonight. Except I'm not focusing on those songs that I don't care about. I'm focusing on those 1 out of 15 songs that for whatever reason, I stopped listening to them.

Existentialism on Prom Night by Straylight Run is 1 song that I forgot ever existed. The hook of the song is, "Sing like you think no one's listening" and I like how those lyrics and that message is played out. It made me think of another song about how awesome singing is. Sing, by The Dresden Dolls is all about how, whatever the circumstance, "just sing". Both those songs came out at about the same time. And I liked the message of both of them. But I haven't thought about either song in years. But I bet you tomorrow at work, I'm singing about singing. Not sure which song. But it'll happen.